Memorial Hall Fire Historical Footage - September 6, 1956

"For almost 60 years, all students in the Yard had to do to get the time was glance north toward Memorial Hall's 200-foot-high clock tower. Then, on September 6, 1956, a worker involved in a project to restore the clock left his blowtorch on. The subsequent inferno raged for four hours and completely destroyed the tower, its clocks and its 3,000-pound bell...." https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1994/10/8/mem-and-its-long-still-controversial/ "The tower of Memorial Hall, truncated by fire on September 6, 1956, will finally boast a spire once again. Construction begins on site July 1, [1999,] and the building will be whole by year's end..." https://harvardmagazine.com/1999/03/jhj.restored.html